Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of

Goodbye don't mean gone.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

I'm not into the money thing. You can only sleep in one bed at a time. You can only eat one meal at a time, or be in one car at a time. So I don't have to have millions of dollars to be happy. All I need are clothes on my back, a decent meal, and a little loving when I feel like it. That's the bottom line.

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.